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Bitterroot (i)
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Work is holy
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my teacher said
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looking out a window
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at the empty expanse
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of our poems.
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Beyond
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where he could see,
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in the arid, brush steppe
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above the city
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of Yakima, Washington,
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the bitteroot
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turned on
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its primus of pink
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and white light
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a few hundred feet
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from the interstate.
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I'd worked forty years
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to see a thing
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so perfectly tuned
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and burning clear
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below a sky's blue flame.
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Once a rattlesnake,
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the colour of Yakima
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earth lifted the ancient,
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holy light of her rattle
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toward me.
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Through the window
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in her cage, I watched
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the whole desert
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undulate
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down the hollow
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coiled length
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of her body.
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